Sentence examples for Conventions of language from inspiring English sources

The passion in a work such as Eonta is not altogether human - it has the impersonal quality of a natural force, untrammelled by conventions of language or style.

"These poets started a movement to write against the destructive conventions of language of Nazism and therefore started to write in lowercase letters again," she explained in an email.

They argue that a study of the orthography of the pages – the spelling, grammar and other conventions of language – shows that it can be dated to the second half of the seventh century and therefore fits in with the more traditional explanation of the Koran's development.

Higgins's dialogue achieves a kind of baroque dinginess that is both completely _un_realistic (surely real criminals are as boring and hemmed in by the conventions of language as the rest of us) and in the echo-chamber of this novel, completely convincing.

Whitefield-Madrano interviewed men and women about how their ideas of beauty affect their relationships, and she marshals a wide array of research and statistical data to explore the ways beauty is expressed in, or determined by, conventions of language, art, media, sex, and friendship.

See section 7, Conventions of language.

This is, as he confesses, a difficult solution of the case to maintain, for one might ask where the words get their signification if not from the conventions of the language?

Lynne Truss's book is (stay with this sentence, and remember the function of punctuation is to 'tango the reader into the pauses, inflections, continuities and connections that the spoken word would convey') as much an argument for clear thinking as it is a pedantic defence of obsolete conventions of written language.

So perhaps what philosophical analysis is doing is revealing the tacit conventions of ordinary language, an approach particularly favored by Ayer (1934 [1952]).

Other tasks mentioned in this context involved critically evaluating the reliability of historical sources, getting to know the linguistic conventions of a language, and integrating the various elements derived from historical sources into a consistent narrative of a particular epoch.

Study the literary conventions of the language thoroughly.